“I always try to have fun with what I do, but there’s always a ton of practical stuff that needs to be done when you work full time as an artist.”
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“I have an illustration of the Duomo in Florence. It’s the largest brick dome ever constructed. I find it incredible that they spent just short of 600 years building the thing, and worked on the bottom part FOR TWO HUNDRED YEARS before holding a competition to design the dome which they didn’t even know how to build. On an infinitesimal scale, that’s sort of how I feel with my work.”
“I tend to pull things from my day-to-day life, coming across interesting ideas or packaging or movies or music. My focus is on the future and how we push design culturally, making the world a better place.”
“This is a pretty humble desk, a hand-me-down, from Ikea I think. It’s probably meant to be a kitchen table, though it’s solid, like a butcher’s block. I have a little ode to the Yale Center for British Art in the center of the wall: a water spaniel by George Stubbs; a horse called Pumpkin [...]
Duncan Quinn (DQ) is amoung a handful of people responsible for the resurgence of men’s tailoring in the USA. Although Duncan hails from London, his formative years were spent learning about life in the South of France. Past and present DQ devotees include alt rockers Green Day, LeBron James, Sean Combs, Adrian Grenier and other celebrities. Quinn continues [...]
“My office is one block from my home in the City of Saint Louis, in an old house. Aside from me, there are seven other businesses in the place: a hair salon, a prom dress maker, two jewelers, a photographer, a vintage clothing store, and an event planner. When I first moved in three years [...]
